I have many emotions about my mother, conflict, love, and hate. It’s not something I can evaluate anytime soon, especially not with all this new chaos overtaking me. Ray, Sophie, my past, her past, it’s all one massive ball of string waiting to unravel, and I don’t have the energy or the inclination to go there anymore.

“What about the little girl?” Sarah asks, as though reading my mind. I had briefly told her, via text and the odd call, about Sophie when all that ...